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Module 1: Trauma Care Spectrum

Segment 2: Trauma System Entry Criteria

  • Prehospital trauma criteria: Who goes to a trauma center?
  • Patient triage: ESI, CTAS, etc.
  • Triage of special patient populations (child, adolescent, pregnant, geriatric, burn, replantation, SCI etc.)
  • Information communication: interfacility transfers and from the field
  • Hospital trauma team activation criteria and activation levels
  • Trauma team member roles and responsibilities
  • Trauma room set-up and preparation
  • Prehospital-to-hospital hand-off report
  • Trauma patient documentation
  • EMTALA requirements
  • EMS diversion protocol
  • Disaster planning/management/Mass casualty
  • Trauma patients who arrive without EMS care (by police, private vehicle, walk-ins)